The popularity of the meta-universe in the past year has triggered a hot discussion about Web3 in the industry. Some people think that the metacosm is Web3, while others think that the metacosm is a completely different concept from Web3. Surprisingly, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Musk has repeatedly expressed ridicule for Web3, asking on Twitter, "Has anyone seen Web3?" I can not find. ”。 In fact, Musk's confusion also makes some sense, because almost all of the projects called Web3 are still Essentially Web2, or at most Web 2.5. The real Web3 milestone project MetaLife.Social Metaverse Interstellar Social Network has only recently surfaced.
In fact, the concepts of metaverses and Web3 have been around for a long time before blockchain history. The concept of metaverse is derived from the science fiction novel Avalanche published by American writer Neal Stephenson in 1992, while Web3 was proposed in 2003 by Henry Wang, founder of SmartMesh and metaLife consultant. But the "origin" of The outbreak of Web3 last year was on December 9, when Brian Brook, the acting director of the former Monetary Supervision Institute of the United States, gave a speech to the US Congress, popularized the concept of Web3, and actively promoted the United States to attach importance to Web3, hoping to ensure that the United States is in a leading position in the Web3 era. This has also made the popularity of Web3 rise, not only the Search Volume of Baidu Index Web3 has doubled several times compared with half a year ago, but also the search weighted calculation of Web3 in Google has repeatedly reached new highs.
Although U.S. members of Congress also have a positive and positive attitude towards Web 3, tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, endorsed the concept of Web3 in 2006, but there are indeed people who are not optimistic about Web3, and this representative figure is Musk. Musk has sent multiple tweets since last year expressing his confusion about Web3: "I'm not saying web3 is real — it now looks more like a market buzzword than reality."
What's even more surprising is that Musk actually used the urinal to mock Web3 people for often inviting him to join a DAO organization. Of course, he was also sprayed, and Devaiah Bopanna replied to Musk on Twitter that "this is not true, because Web3 people don't use urinals, they just urinate over Web2".
So what exactly are Web2 and Web3 in dispute? What does this require us to simply trace the idea of Web3?
The Web 1.0 period lasted from about 1991 to 2003, at this stage when the Internet was just emerging, with static pages dominated by users only as a party to the receiver, passively accepting all the content output of the platform. During this period, google, Yahoo, Sina, Sohu and other commercial portals were produced, attracting a large number of users to click and read, customize ads and monetize traffic.
After 2003, that is, the late stage of The Web1, with the rapid development of computing power, optical fiber infrastructure and search engines, Web2 came into being, different from the "read-only" mode of Web1, Web2 opened the "read and write" mode, which allows users to upload content to share independently, resulting in an interesting Blog model, born such as Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Sina Weibo, Douyin and other social platforms. In the decade since, Web 2.0 has rapidly redefined the way marketing and commerce operates, such as the number of likes or a bad review of a user can influence the purchase decisions of other consumers. Even if many content creation KOLs and the Web ecosystem erupt, the head dividend and traffic will eventually be monopolized by the Internet giants.
On the Web2 centralized platform, although it seems that every user can create videos or posts that they are interested in, in fact, the "power of life and death" is controlled by the platform, whether your video or post is illegal, infringing, and whether there is plagiarism, it is determined by the platform, and even without your consent, you can "harmonize" the video post you publish, involving more serious things, and the user may be banned by the platform. The architecture diagram of Web2 looks very similar to Web1, except that in the Web1 era, the arrow of man and centralized server is one-way content acquisition and does not interact.
Of course, this logic also applies to Weibo and Twitter, after all, after former US President Trump made unfavorable remarks on Twitter against Internet companies, Twitter can directly block the accounts of former US presidents on social media. Musk has also faced the same problem of Twitter banning because of "no mouth", and recently spent a huge amount of money to acquire Twitter shares to become a personal majority shareholder and became the owner of the platform to protect freedom of speech.
But for mass users, until the emergence of Web3, users have the possibility of truly "turning over and being the master". Web3.0 represents a new trend in the future development of the Internet, involving decentralization, users have actual control over data and information, and online asset construction. To explain in layman's terms, at this stage, through a series of protocols, users can not only produce content, but also control their own content.
In 2003, the year Web2 was defined, Wang Qiheng, founder of SmartMesh who was studying for a ph.D. in computer science at Washington University in St. Louis, also defined Web3, introducing AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) to the Web3 definition, committed to building a One World One Web that crosses national borders and crosses domain language boundaries. In 2006, Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, endorsed the definition of web3 semantic web and added the concept of decentralization to the web3 definition. After Satoshi Nakamoto published a bitcoin white paper to make blockchain technology surface, blockchain became the technical basis for Web3 decentralization, data confirmation and protection of personal privacy, and Poca founder Gavin Wood enriched the Web3 protocol and spared no effort to become an evangelist of Web3.
At present, the Web 3.0 ecosystem is improving in many areas such as storage, privacy, game applications and creator economy, and its core concept is to return data ownership to users, allow users to control their own data and dispose of their own digital assets. Industry insiders will see Web 3.0 as the cornerstone of creating a metaverse
The true Web3 decentralized web application is an application that has been decoupled from the centralized server and can still be used by the Internet, because it supports point-to-point communication and dual offline value transfer (digital currency offline payment). For example, the MetaLife interstellar social networking protocol completely eliminates centralized servers. Instead, applications, storage, authentication, message signing, and more are all done on mobile devices, and communication between MetaLife Apps can go on a point-to-point approach without the need for a centralized message server. Every mobile device has a Merkel tree-based microchain that provides ultimate security, privacy, and data recovery after device loss.
In the MetaLife Web3 social network (https://metalife.social/), users connect directly to each other, and the encrypted signed data is propagated without any intermediaries, peer-to-peer replication to build a One World One Web that cannot be blocked. This is a truly free Web 3 interstellar social network that works with or without the Internet, MetaLife. When there is no network, MetaLife communicates through the low energy Bluetooth wormhole protocol, which is a Web3 breakthrough technology jointly conquered by the MetaLife team and the Singapore SmartMesh team, which allows the 3 billion human beings in the world who cannot access the Internet to enter the One World One Web interstellar social network through the MetaLife connection and enter the open metacosm to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
In Mars and other planets and galaxies that have not yet been colonized by humans, just as in remote and underdeveloped areas where there is no network, MetaLife can connect humans in this region and communicate and pay for transactions through Pub, DTN (DelayTolerant Network) and spectral blockchain and Layer2 photonic network. Mars is far away from Earth, and it takes about 2 minutes for light (radio) to travel at the closest distance from Mars to Earth, and about 20 minutes for apogee. In such a long delay, the TCP/IP protocol has failed, and the current blockchain technology in the world will fail, except for the spectral blockchain of the SmartMesh ecosystem and the Layer2 photonic network, because it is designed to run on the mesh network without the Internet. So MetaLife, which is built on the basis of the SmartMesh ecosystem, can connect Mars to Earth's Pub through the LickLider protocol + DTN protocol named after the father of the Internet, Licklider, so that social networks can exist across the solar system. Martians can appear in MetaLife on Mars with MetaLife posts on Mars, realizing interstellar social networks. Strictly speaking, MetaLife's mission is to implement the first decentralized interstellar social network, intergalactic Social Network, so that the creator economy and metacosm can cross galaxies to become One World One Web.
So going back to Musk saying he can't see where Web3 is is, it's because he hasn't seen MetaLife yet. In his eyes, even after acquiring Twitter and introducing a cryptocurrency incentive system, this blockchain-based Twitter is still centralized. Wang Qiheng defines such a centralized social network + digital currency incentive system as Web 2.5.
Going back to Musk's free speech, no centralized network can be more free than a decentralized social network. But by building a social network shared by all races on an unstoppable decentralized network, the censorship of bad information and the governance of the metaverse become critical. Fortunately, another MetaLife consultant, EOS founder Dan Larimer (known as BM), first proposed the concept of a blockchain-based DAO as early as 2013, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization. After the Steemit, Voice, and Fractally projects, BM's fractal DAO governance will be reconstructed for the governance of interstellar social networks and open metaversities.
The MetaLife Metaverse Interstellar Social Network can be called a milestone for humanity from Web 2.5 to Web3. Musk can see and perform the transformation and colonization of Mars, turn humans into a multi-planetary species, and I believe that the great Musk will also see the real Web3 and MetaLife meta-universe interstellar social networks!